Pakistan allegedly launched rocket and mortar attacks against Afghanistan, killing seven people and wounding 85 more on Monday, according to the Taliban government.
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Pakistan allegedly launched rocket and mortar attacks against Afghanistan, killing seven people and wounding 85 more on Monday, according to the Taliban government.
The fracas between the neighboring nations flared-up again and it is menacing to wreck the delicate peace talks between both countries, according to a story by Newsmax.
Still, Pakistan’s government dismissed the reports as “continuous propaganda.”
However, the strikes were the first aggressive skirmish since Chinese-mediated peace talks between the two sides earlier this month.
For months, Pakistan and Afghanistan had been entangled in deadly fighting that has killed hundreds of people since late February, when Afghanistan flung a cross-border attack on Pakistan in reprisal for Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan.
In an escalation of fighting that alarmed the international community, Islamabad had declared it was in open war with Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting scorned Afghan media reports and official statements about the strikes on the university as “a blatant lie.”
Pakistan says it has targeted multiple posts of the Taliban in Afghanistan after mortars fired inside Pakistan territory from Afghanistan injured civilians. A video published by the Pakistan military shows the targeted posts across the Angor Adda border in South Waziristan Lower… pic.twitter.com/i9gP80AgXU
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Instead, Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of sheltering militants that carry out deadly attacks inside Pakistan, especially the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP. The group is separate from, but allied with, the Afghan Taliban, which took over Afghanistan in 2021 following the chaotic withdrawal of U.S.-led troops. Kabul denies the charge.
Pakistan’s information ministry said that “Pakistan’s targeting is precise and intelligence based. No strike has been carried out on Sayed Jamaluddin Afghan University. The claims are frivolous and fake.”
But on Saturday, Amir Khan Mutaqi, the Afghan Foreign Minister described the recent negotiations in China as “positive.”
“You are all aware of our recent problems with Pakistan. The latest negotiations were held in Urumqi under the mediation of China, and these negotiations were positive,” he said during a graduation ceremony at the foreign ministry’s Diplomacy Institute.
The issues between the two countries “are very sensitive between neighbors and between two Islamic neighboring countries and should not be treated irresponsibly,” he added.
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